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Psychotherapy
Catherine O`Mahony M.B. M.Med Sc (Psychotherapy)
Therapy is concerned with helping individuals confront difficult situations without becoming overwhelmed by them. These include bereavement, break-down of a close relationship, failure to achieve some valued goal, loss of employment and medical illness. People often respond to these situations with symptoms of anxiety, depression, despair and a fall in self-esteem.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy ↓
is a talking therapy which invites a person to tease out and explore thoughts, memories and events that may be contributing to these feelings.
Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy ↓
is particularly concerned with how an individual interprets events, and how this might help or hinder his/her attempt to respond to a crisis. It seeks to carefully reveal the meaning a particular event holds for someone, and how their thinking in response to that event may be creating a mood of fear and despair, and paralysing them in their attempt to cope. Its goal is to help people to identify and challenge their negative thinking so they become free to see themselves clearly and honestly for who they are, and respond creatively to the particular crisis that has overwhelmed them.
Growth – or recovery from distress – happens when people transcend negative, habitual, self-defeating coping strategies in favour of new ways of thinking and acting which work better for them.